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The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

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Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across the stage to represent the sea, encapsulates the mystic feeling of L’Amour de Loin, Saariaho’s haunting opera of distant love. Eric Owens is Jaufré Rudel, a troubadour in 12th century France who has become tired of his hedonistic life and longs for an idealized love. Enter the Pilgrim (Tamara Mumford) who tells him his perfect love does, in fact, exist, far across the sea. She is Clémence, Countess of Tripoli (Susanna Phillips). The magic of the characters’ inner lives as they explore the meaning of love, longing, life, and death is heightened by Saariaho’s hypnotic and bewitching score, conducted by Susanna Mälkki.

Featured Crew

Robert Lepage
Director
Susanna Mälkki
Conductor
Kaija Saariaho
Original Music Composer

Cast

Tamara Mumford
Tamara Mumford
The Pilgrim
Eric Owens
Eric Owens
Jaufré Rudel
Deborah Voigt
Deborah Voigt
Self - Host

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